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Therefore, in order to help those candidates who are aspiring to work for Facebook, Glassdoor has scanned through thousands of online reviews submitted by people who went through the interview process and picked out some of the toughest questions asked. In this article, we provide you the 10 toughest interview questions Facebook asks job candidates. Interview candidate: Facebook data scientist Question: How many birthday posts occur on Facebook on a given day?...

“We have a responsibility to stop abuse and election interference on our platform. That’s why we’ve made significant investments since 2016 to better identify new threats, close vulnerabilities and reduce the spread of viral misinformation and fake accounts,” Facebook said in a blog post. “Today, almost a year out from the 2020 elections in the US, we’re announcing several new measures to help protect the democratic process and providing an update on initiatives already underway....

Generally, a judge’s approval is not required for the planes’ surveillance equipment, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. The FBI said it uses front companies to keep the pilots and aircraft safe from danger. It also protects the identity of the aircraft so that suspects on the ground do not know that they are being observed by the FBI. At least 50 aircraft have been traced back to the FBI, and more than 100 flights in 11 states were identified over a 30-day period since late April, circling both major cities and rural areas, as reported by the Associated Press....

Isis Agora Lovecruft, who is a lead software developer for Tor has been characterised by secretive threats at the hands of US law enforcement from the first time she met them six months ago. Apparently, the FBI would really like to talk to her, but won’t tell her (or her lawyer) exactly why. Now, Lovecruft has published a blog post accusing the FBI of harassment for the past six months....

25 Mb/s was the broadband standard twenty-five years ago, back in 1994 (Think Clinton in the news for sexual harassment and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.) Technology has moved on. Your computer is 100 times faster and you have many more internet-connected devices: But standard broadband speeds are the same as they were in 1994. The internet is over-crowded because more people are using it, there are more video downloads, and online gamers are hogging bandwidth....

Your fingerprints can be lifted from your public images without your knowledge!Future of fingerprint identification As surprising as it may sound, Starbug managed to generate the fingerprint of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen without even being physically close to her. He simply scanned her thumb in photos that have been made public by media outlets. Making a presentation as the ongoing Chaos Computer Club hacker conference in Hamburg, Starbug explained how the biometric feature can be reproduced from images of victims finger....

If all things go according to Munich’s city authority’s plan, the city computers will have erased Linux operating system and installed Windows 10 by the year 2020. Readers should recall that Munich was one of the first city councils to dump Windows for open source and Linux way back before other cities. This new decision to dump Linux will no doubt have repercussions as thousands of council computers will move from Linux to Windows, in a reversal of one of open-source software’s marquee successes....

However, it has been found that Gatekeeper allows hackers sneak malware onto your Mac by completely bypassing the famous Mac security. Using specially crafted exploit, cyber attackers are able to open malicious Mac app, even if it is configured to open only those downloaded from App store. The exploit was discovered by Patrick Wardle, director of research at security firm Synack. Wardle found that the exploit is made possible thanks to a key design shortcoming in Gatekeeper that allows an attacker to use a binary file already trusted by Apple to execute malicious files....

The existence of this report was not accepted until 2008 by the German parliament, the Bundestag, who have struggled hard to keep the files private. However, two years later, Robert Fleischer, an UFO enthusiast from Exopolitic.org found that the Government had actually assigned the job of discovering the existence of extraterrestrial life to its scientific department, said The Express. The fight for the X-files has been to some extent to that of a David and Goliath fight, with Frank Reitemeyer, the German blogger dragging the Bundestag to court over the country’s lack of transparency related to its UFO research....

The scam was detected by Wordfence, the maker of a security plugin for WordPress, who said that the victims are targeted via an email to their Gmail account, which may include an attachment or image, and might even come from a contact or company you recognize. When clicked on, it takes users to a well-disguised website that mimics the Gmail login page and asks the user to sign in once more....

Jurczyk while performing some analysis found three different vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-8680, CVE-2017-8684, and CVE-2017-8685, which only affected Windows 7 and 8.1 and not Windows 10. He was able to find these because Microsoft patched it on the newest OS, but not on older versions. Jurczyk used a technique called ‘binary diffing’ where he found examples of patches that had been applied to Windows 10, but not to Windows 7 or 8....

Google Inc.’s life sciences group has invested on a health-tracking device or a wristband that could be used in clinical trials and drug tests, giving doctors, researchers or physicians minute-by-minute data on how patients are faring. The experimental device, developed within the company’s Google X research division, can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, and also environmental information like light exposure and noise levels. It won’t be marketed as a consumer device, said Andy Conrad, head of the life sciences team at Google....

Every month Google is receiving dozens of millions of DMCA takedown requests from copyright holders, most of which are directed at its search engine only. However, with Google Fiber being rolled out in many cities, notices are targeting allegedly pirating Internet subscribers are becoming more and more common as well. These include regular takedown notices but also the more controversial part is the settlement demands which are being sent by companies such as Rightscorp and CEG TEK....

Allo has now-standard messaging features like stickers, changing font sizes, emojis, smart reply and marked-up photos. Google has customized Allo for Indian users by enabling smart replies in ‘Hinglish.’ It is also rolling out over 200 stickers relevant to Indian users that have been created by popular independent artists. “Sometimes a “Badhai Ho” or “Party to banti hai” say a lot more,” said the company in a statement. Amit Fulay, Group Product Manager, Google said on the launch, “Whether it’s planning a night out or just catching up, we rely on messaging to stay in touch with friends and family every day....

However, there are no tools that allows developers to see how their website user experience compared to others. To help the developers with this, Google has launched the Chrome User Experience Report, a public dataset of key user experiences for top websites on the Internet. It is intended to give the developers a better insight into how users perceive and use their web pages on a day-to-day basis while using Google Chrome....

“We’re aware of the issue and are in contact with Xiaomi to work on a fix,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “In the meantime, we’re disabling Xiaomi integrations on our devices.” According to Android Police, the move will affect all Mi Home integrations and commands for the Assistant. The issue came to light after a Reddit user ‘Dio-V’ tried to stream content from his newly purchased Xiaomi Mijia 1080p Smart IP Security Camera to a Google Nest Hub....

In other words, users will no longer be able to see the Q&A section while performing searches on Google. For those unaware, Q&A section (also known as “ask and answer”) is a small section on the search results page that displays the questions and answers that the users have created on Google Search. It also shows some related questions as well with their answers below the Q&A section. According to a report by Android Police, Google will also be removing the questions and answers contributions made by the user from “your contributions” page on June 30th....

It all began in August 2016 when the boy named Jose Javier from the south-eastern seaside city of Torrevieja created an account with AdWords – an online advertising service by Google that enables advertisers to compete to display brief advertising copy to web users based in part on cookies, keywords, predefined by the advertisers, that might link the copy to the content of web pages shown to users. Jose was under the impression that he would earn his band money if people clicked on the link to his homemade website, but the service works the other way around....

According to the agency, Ryan Collins, a 36-year-old Pennsylvania man, hacked into iCloud and Google email accounts of more than 100 people, most of them celebrities. “[Collins] was charged today with felony computer hacking related to a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to more than 100 Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts, including those belonging to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles,” according to a statement from the Justice Department....

“Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow. We have confirmed that some level of production access was gained on May 11,” wrote Mary Ferguson, Vice President of Engineering in a security update dated May 16. “We discovered and investigated the extent of the access and are addressing all known vulnerabilities. We have not identified any breach of customer or user data.” Back then, Ferguson mentioned that an investigation into the breach was ongoing....